Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic, the company behind the artificial intelligence system Claude, received $18 million in compensation for 2025, according to the company's initial public offering filing. The IPO prospectus reviewed by Reuters shows that Anthropic is preparing to list as early as this autumn, with a valuation that could exceed $2 trillion. Amodei's pay tops that of the CEOs of Alphabet and Amazon.com, but falls short of the CEOs of Oracle and Nvidia, placing him in the middle of the pack among the heads of major technology companies. The annual salaries of Amodei and his sister, President Daniela Amodei, were each doubled to $1.4 million in July, and Daniela Amodei's total compensation came to $16.4 million. According to the AFL-CIO, average annual CEO pay at S&P 500 companies rose 21 percent in 2025 to $22.8 million.